TB Map (IMAGE)

Johns Hopkins Medicine

TB Map

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Tuberculosis (TB) has been the leading cause of death worldwide from a single infectious agent for most of the past decade (until surpassed by COVID-19 in 2020). The graphic shows estimated TB rates per 100,000 population, highlighting the devastating global impact of the disease.

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Graphic created by M.E. Newman, Johns Hopkins Medicine, using map courtesy of the World Health Organization and image of TB bacteria courtesy of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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